| Show X X X r r X ii X X YX X y X X X X iC x F Not Agreed as to Color of The moon Is not white It Is brown Mitts Mars la Is not red It a green I I T These lese are the latest suggestions of astronomers Carnegie Institution A committee of the thai that the thin tion In Washington reports whiteness of moon apparent silvery shery light is due Ille to contrast with the Hie dark dark- darkened darkened color of the enel ened sky The actual moon they believe e Is the dull llull brown of weathered rocks This su suggests that the thc surface of the satellite may have been weathered by oxidation at al some previous time Ime although the moon Is known to have haye no atmosphere now Mars according to 11 Eo I J Gounod of the Amateur Astronomers a may be covered with green vegetation like Ilke the earth The reason It a appears pears red he lie says is that lint the light tight rays have to pass through the atmosphere of both Mars and the earth before they reach our eyes These atmospheres filter filler out the blue and green ras ra's rays but allow time the red rays to pass The three reasons most often given ghen for the red color of Mars fars says sas Popular Science Monthly are that thai the planet is rusty with Iron rust rust that Us lis soil soli and rocks are ure red re or that It is s red e vegetation eta |
